John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)

26 May 1306: Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, knighted

26 May 1583: Baptism of Susanna, the daughter of William #Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway #otd (BM)

26 May 735: d. Bede, writer, historian, monk at Jarrow on Ascension day #otd (a 16thC French view of him, BM)

13 May 1609: James VI & I grants the Virginia Company wider powers & more extensive privileges #otd in a bid to try and rescue the Jamestown project (BM)

23 May 1679: the first volume of Gilbert Burnet's very influential History of the Reformation of the Church of #England is licensed and published #otd (BM)

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict
c. 1493–96
Luca Signorelli

(Met Museum)

Translation of the bodies of Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius, 2nd century Milanese martyrs.
School of Philippe de Champaigne, 1661.

This was the translation by St Ambrose, witness by Augustine of Hippo before he became Christian.

(Musée du Louvre)

20 May 1501: d. Bl. Columba of Rieti, Third Order of St. Dominic & mystic. Renowned for spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, beatified 1625. #nuntastic

The figure of Sleep,
Jacques de Gheyn III, c. 1618

(British Museum)